Let's start with the least interesting part of this review just to take care of a basic issue that some people will want to know about: the DVD itself. This is a 1989 movie I first watched on an old VHS tape (which I still treasure). I picked up the DVD to update an essential component of my film collection, and I wasn't disappointed. The DVD's production is minimal, with a fairly generic menu and no special features, but the video quality of the film itself is much better than I expected. If you're wondering whether or not to get the DVD to update your collection, the answer is a resounding yes.Now on to the film itself. Let me first say that this movie isn't for everyone. Its humor is off-beat and its storytelling is extremely disjointed. While it does have an overarching plot, it doesn't emerge until relatively late in the film, which feels at first more like a series of vignettes than a coherent film. That having been said, if you're a Penn & Teller fan, I can almost guarantee the film's sense of humor will please you and you'll find yourself laughing at loud at many of those "vignettes" and humorous lines.What makes this actually a good film rather than merely fan-service for Penn & Teller junkies is the subtlety (not a word most people would apply to this film, but the right word nonetheless) of the film's actual content. What feels initially like unconnected and outrageous vignettes is ultimately unified into a deep and thoughtful whole whose message is as timely as upon the film's release. Through the characters' (P&T play variations on themselves) increasingly elaborate practical jokes, the film offers an important examination of the nature and boundaries of humor.When I bought the DVD to update my collection and re-watched the film to write this review, I was cautiously hopeful that the film would have aged as well as I hoped it would, and overall it has. I think the subtext has actually become even more relevant than it was when I first saw the movie and while some of the practical jokes depicted are not as believable today as they were in 1989 (and some were unbelievable even then), this is still a masterwork of little-known cinema.